Re: video as texture

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From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 07/07/2000 13:47:59

The dmedial libraries do not work well multipipe with independent draw
processes. The best approach is to read to memory and explicitly subload
to texture in each draw. Even if the code did not hang, in our
experience it would not work multipipe.

Cheers,Angus.

Satheesh Ganapathi Subramanian wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to create a video texture inside a CAVE program using performer
> with DIVO. When I iniitialize the video texture (following the sample code
> movietex.c in /usr/share/Performer/src/pguide/libpf/C ), the program seems
> to wait indefinitely on the following statement:
>
> tex->setLoadVal(PFTEX_LOAD_VIDEO_VLSERVER, (void*) video->videoServer);
> tex->setLoadVal(PFTEX_LOAD_VIDEO_VLPATH, (void*) video->videoPath);
> tex->setLoadVal(PFTEX_LOAD_VIDEO_VLDRAIN, (void*) video->videoDrain);
>
> Can someone tell me where I might have gone wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Satheesh
>
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